“The prospect of a generation of American children being raised by women in homes without fathers is challenging for religious institutions whose central conception of deity is father, whose central conception of church is family, whose only conception of family is heterosexual.”

Source: Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)

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American journalist and essayist 1944

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